Rebranding ProtonPosted: 26 July 2016; Category: Campus
The Proton brand, the pride of the nation, made its successful launch in the mid-1980s. Sales peaked between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s but figures have been lower in recent years.

Bold Young Entrepreneurs: Redeeming their dream and business opportunities through target marketingPosted: 21 June 2016; Category: Campus
Recently, I was invited to moderate an Entrepreneurship session in the Networking Day 4.0 co-organised by Putra Business School and UNITEN. Thinking of MBA students as my target audience, I decided to focus on “young” entrepreneurs to remain relevant. Most of us have an entrepreneurship dream, but commonly, it remains a dream. Why? It is simply because we humans are risk-averse by nature.

The Biasiswa Pendidikan MPOB offers FOUR postgraduate research in PhD programme for the year 2014/2015 at any university in the United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), Australia or New Zealand which are recognized by the Public Service Department (PSD).

Nottingham MyResearch Sdn Bhd is a fully owned subsidiary of The University of Nottingham in Malaysia. MyResearch engages with business to provide an R&D service, which can be accessed in a tax efficient way and is able to call upon expertise from across the three University of Nottingham Campuses (Malaysia, China and the UK).

Miri – 8 August 2014 – A Postgraduate Information Cocktail Evening event for those interested to pursue postgraduate studies at Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia (Curtin Sarawak) will be hosted by the university at Sky Garden, Meritz Hotel Miri on 15 August from 5.30 to 8.30 pm.

The Human Life Advancement Foundation (HLAF) is the newly established foundation active in the fields of the education, technology transfer and sustainable development in developing world. Our mission is to develop networks of organizations and inpiduals able and willing to contribute to the needs of society, as well as in the development of internationally competent inpiduals. HLAF aspires to become a reference point for creation of knowledge, innovations and technology transfer related issues in developing countries. We support the importance of education in building a knowledge society.

The CIMB Regional Scholarship is a full scholarship award covering all academic fees including registration, tuition and examination fees, book allowance, as well as other expenses such as accommodation, airfare, travel documents and other related expenses.

The SEAMEO-Jasper Research Award was established in 1990 with the support of the Government of Canada as a way of recognizing exemplary research conducted by Southeast Asian nationals in the region. The yearly award aims to encourage young scholars to conduct researched on a relevant theme on social development in Southeast Asia and to facilitate continued interaction and knowledge-sharing among Southeast Asian and Canadian researchers.

The Merdeka Award is now accepting applications for the Merdeka Award Grant for International Attachment.

The Grant will provide a discerning Malaysian (aged 22 - 35 years old) at a post-graduate level, the opportunity to be attached to a renowned institution or organisation abroad for up to three months, for collaborative research work and experience.

The scope of the Grant covers a wide range of research areas, such as education, arts, sports, community and social work, science and technology, environment, and health.

Realistic Video Based Assistive Living

A research project in collaboration with Universiti Malaya (UM) and funded by UM Research Collaborative Grant Scheme entitled Realistic Video Based Assistive Living is looking for one postgraduate research officer and one postdoctoral research fellow to work on the following sub-projects:

Security and robustness of video – from transmission to storage in the cloudIn this project, we aim to: (a) construct a theoretical model to capture the robustness of video with respect to well-known restrictions and adverse attacks by hostile parties; (b) propose a new robust video encryption algorithm based on the notion of provable security, and; (c) prove the robustness of our designed algorithms based on extensive experiments, and based on the notion of provable security.

Visual based ambient assistive living - from passive monitoring to active directingThe main objectives are to: (a) develop novel computer vision techniques in order to recognize the eating and drinking hand postures of physically-challenged individuals such as the elderly; (b) propose correct hand postures through example videos, and; (c) design privacy-preserving extensions of the assistive living techniques so that observed individuals can maintain their dignity

A research project in collaboration with MIMOS entitled GPGPU Accelerated Video Analytic Algorithm Parallelization Enabling Massive Image Data Processing is looking for two postgraduate research officers. The objectives of the project are as follows:

UMP has added fourteen new medals to its collection of awards when our researchers brought home three golds, four silvers and seven bronzes from the 19th Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX '08). The three-day exhibition, held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) from 9 to 11 May 2008, attracted the participation of about 400 hundred exhibitors from around the world. More than 600 exhibits were put on display for public viewing. UMP showcased 15 projects at the exhibition and all but one of them received awards from the event organizer, the Malaysian Invention and Design Society (MINDS).

The setting up of the Institute of Research Management and Consultancy (Institut Pengurusan Penyelidikan dan Perundingan, IPPP) was agreed by the University Senate on 23rd August 2000 and approved by the University Board of Directors on 11th October 2000. IPPP functions as a ‘one-stop’ centre to manage all research related activities in the University of Malaya. The Institute’s involve primarily planning, organizing, promoting, monitoring and evaluating research conducted by researchers in the University. It also provides services in the transfer of technology and commercialization of research outputs and products including providing consultancy services to the public and private sectors. The Institute is intended to realize the University’s desire to be a world class research university.

Sunway University College (SyUC) considers that research aims to resolve fundamental issues and specific problems arising from the political, socio-economic and cultural environment. There is a place for basic research undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge and applied research which develops or test existing knowledge. and is primarily directed towards either specific practical objectives or towards the evaluation of policies and practices. Both types of research will complement each other and thrive best when individual initiatives or group collaboration is encouraged within a framework of institutional strategic planning.

As an open and distance learning (ODL) institution, OUM shoulders a huge responsibility in enhancing its online learning system consistently to make learning less stressful to its learners who are predominantly working people. To address this matter, the University puts much emphasise on research in the relevant areas.